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Raymond Carr
María Jesús González
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Description for Raymond Carr
Hardcover. "Published in collaboration with the Ca'anada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies." Num Pages: 520 pages, illus. BIC Classification: 1DSE; BGH; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 167 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1008.
Raymond Carr pioneered a new way of looking at modern Spanish history, releasing Spaniards form the shackles of Romantic myth and allowing them to see their nation as a country like any other, rather than one set apart from the rest of Europe. Born in humble circumstances, he journeyed through a fascinating period in twentieth-century British history, vaulting the class barriers that were still very much in place in the England of his day and turning himself into an interested and acutely observant member of the exclusive and decadent world of the late aristocracy, even becoming a keen huntsman. Familiar ... Read more
Raymond Carr pioneered a new way of looking at modern Spanish history, releasing Spaniards form the shackles of Romantic myth and allowing them to see their nation as a country like any other, rather than one set apart from the rest of Europe. Born in humble circumstances, he journeyed through a fascinating period in twentieth-century British history, vaulting the class barriers that were still very much in place in the England of his day and turning himself into an interested and acutely observant member of the exclusive and decadent world of the late aristocracy, even becoming a keen huntsman. Familiar ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
520
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
520
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845195359
SKU
V9781845195359
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About María Jesús González
María Jesús González teaches Modern History at the University of Cantabria. An expert in the political history of the reign of Alfonso XIII, she is the author of Ciudadanía y Acción: El conservadurismo maurista 1907–1923 (1990) and El universo conservador de Antonio Maura: Biografía y proyecto de Estado (1997), which was short-listed for the 1998 Spanish National Essay Prize. She ... Read more
Reviews for Raymond Carr
"Raymond Carr is a very important and also attractive figure in British academic life and nobody could have written a better biography than this one. This book not only brings an unusually interesting person to life, but fills a large gap in the literature
the profound links between British academia, historical writing and our understanding of Spain."
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the profound links between British academia, historical writing and our understanding of Spain."
Professor ... Read more